If you're a Creative Pro who played VR Funhouse - NVIDIA's free, virtual reality game - at this year's Adobe MAX conference, here's your (and everyone else's) takeaway: You can create in VR, too The story behind the story: VR Funhouse started last year as a technology demo. We wanted to showcase what our GameWorks and VRWorks could do for VR - build unmatched immersive experiences that cannot be r ...

From Autodesk We all crave instant gratification. Back in the day, "on demand" definitely didn't exist. Rewind and fast forward were the closest we came. Today, things are different. Businesses like Netflix and ZipCar offer immediate access. In 2016, you get what you want, when you want it. Autodesk brought "on demand" interactivity to the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industrie ...

We're showing the extraordinary power of the new Quadro Pascal platform for artists, designers and animators at this week's SIGGRAPH conference, the world's largest event for computer graphics. We're launching the most powerful workstation GPU, and software capabilities that will provide artists and designers with extraordinary ability to work faster, with greater creativity. New from Nvidia at th ...

It's an exciting time for creators. With all the new technology and solutions coming to the market, professional creators now have more powerful and comprehensive tools at their disposal than ever before. From filmmakers and artists to designers and engineers, all are branching into new areas of creation using key new technologies such as virtualization, virtual reality and augmented reality. We'r ...

Early this year we released Kraken 1.1 which provided compatibility with Fabric 2.0. A lot has happened since then and this post will let you know all about the latest and greatest update, Kraken 1.2. In a nutshell, Kraken is an Open Source rigging solution for Fabric Engine that allows you to use and define rigs and solvers that produce identical results across different animation applications. S ...

In advance of the movie's release, Dell co-hosted an event with NVIDIA and Sony Pictures Imageworks in Los Angeles, featuring a panel discussion on the technology and creative process behind the film followed by a VIP screening for our customers and other special guests. I was joined on stage by Danny Dimian, Imageworks' VFX Supervisor and Steve Childers, Layout Supervisor for The Angry Birds Movi ...

SAN JOSE, CA - The Nvidia GTC conference kicked off in San Jose, and the first day proved to be quite impressive. In fact, I was won over during the first two hours, which was when Nvidia co-founder/CEO Jen-Hsun Huang delivered his keynote speech. The overall theme, of course, was the need for GPUs to accelerate computers to do the type of work that those attending the conference do - which is mor ...

Imagine opening the door of a gleaming new building and touring each floor before the groundbreaking even takes place. Or seeing every piece of an innovative new automotive engine powering a spectacular new car before the block is cast. Or using that new product before the first prototype is fabricated. That's the reality of virtual reality. It's not just for blasting zombies in the gaming and ent ...

Ever wish you could harness the power of an entire network of workstations to make light work of your most complex designs? Now you can, with Iray Server, our distributed rendering software. Available for a free 90-day trial starting today, Iray Server coordinates a network of machines as a "cluster" to speed the creation of images. It runs on the hardware of your choice. And you can use it with a ...

Autodesk Maya users can create their designs faster and more easily than ever, thanks to our new Iray plug-in for the popular software. Maya is used by tens of thousands of designers, as well as commercial production companies that service the needs of the design industry. These creatives can experience the Iray for Maya plug-in with unlimited use with our 90-day trial, and they can purchase throu ...

From the seismic interpreter looking for oil deposits in the remote Athabasca Tar Sands, to the design engineer making final edits on his widget while on vacation at the beach, to the event videographer shooting HD for the evening news, mobile workstations are being used by more professionals than ever. The new HP ZBook 17 Mobile Workstation with the NVIDIA Quadro K5100M GPU, with GPUDirect for Vi ...

Six months after SolidWorks joined us on stage at the GPU Technology Conference to announce our collaboration on NVIDIA GRID GPU virtualization, we've reached a watershed for the design industry. Specifically, SolidWorks has certified the NVIDIA GRID Visual Computing Appliance (VCA) - our turnkey GPU virtualization offering for small and midsize businesses - for their upcoming release of SolidWork ...

18,250. That is the number of attendees at this year’s Game Developers Conference (GDC). A record. Not bad considering the drop in numbers at the other related trade shows during the past 12 months, including SIGGRAPH. Like always, GDC featured many software and hardware vendors showing off their products. I won’t list them here, but you can find the releases in the special News area dedicated to ...

For the uninitiated, Mass Effect is a sci-fi RPG video game series from developer BioWare that finds the player taking on the role of a human soldier, Commander Shepard, who is tasked with investigating an ancient race of aliens believed to be a threat to not only mankind but the known universe. With the recent release of the second game in the series (to as equally rave reviews as the first entry ...

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